Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recommendation on introducing a network of brain health clinics in the report by Alzheimer’s Research UK entitled Tipping Point: The Future of Dementia, published in September 2023.

The Government is strongly committed to supporting research into dementia. Through partnerships with patients, researchers, funders, and charities we continue to play a significant role in global efforts against the disease.

NHS England has read Alzheimer’s Research UK’s report with great interest and had already been aware, through partnership discussions, of the suggestion outlined in the report to introduce a network of new brain health clinics to work alongside existing dementia services. This is a model that NHS England, and local leaders within integrated care boards, will be able to consider if, for example, new disease modifying treatments for use in early Alzheimer’s disease are licensed and recommended by NICE for routine adoption within the National Health Service.